More on Our Weird Minds
Following along the thoughts of yesterday's post I will write today about things that make your mind go blank.
I have several things that I cannot get to stay in my mind, names of people and places that for some reason will not stick in my mind.
One name I can never remember is the name of the doctor who took off my cataracts. It is a simple name and I can see no reason for not remembering it. I drive by his office almost every time I go anywhere. Once I decided that every time I drove by I would look at his building and say his name. I did that for some time and I finally got so that I could remember it each time I went by. Then for some reason I stopped doing that and soon, within a matter of a few weeks, I again could not remember his name. Even now I cannot remember his name and I will have to look it up in the phone book to tell you!
Another name I have trouble remembering is Gene Roden, the funeral director in Paris, Texas. Can a name be any simpler than Gene Roden? Yet I never can remember it. My Mom and Dad and my sister were buried from that funeral home and I can never remember that name.
I also had a teacher when I was working on my degree back in 1975 that I dearly loved. She was my favorite teacher but I cannot to this day remember her name without looking it up.
Joplin, Missouri, is another name I can't remember without looking it up. We have driven through Joplin and stayed there many nights at a Motel 6. Joplin is not such an unusual name to remember, do you think? However, I never can remember it .
Can you explain to me why I have these unusual quirks in my mind? I really would like to understand the way my mind works. I am sure a psychologist or a psychiatrist might be able to tell me why I can't remember these things, but he would charge an ungodly price to tell me! So I guess I will just go along wondering about it until I die!
posted by kyra lafain @ 11/15/2008 12:30:00 PM
1 Comments:
And why is it that we can remember with clarity incidents that happened 50 years ago, but we can't remember what we ate for supper last night?
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